I hope I do see you, Jessica! With luck I’ll have a little free time to make some of the afternoon events on the 28th, but otherwise I’m mainly locked in. After three full days of interviews that start early, I’m probably leaving before the big reading late Friday night. Enough is enough–and 50+ readers at two minutes each would probably just end up being the final nail in my coffin.

In my experience, the MLA is the least interesting of all conferences/festivals/whatever else. There are some interesting intellectual moments, but not that many. And many of us who are there don’t get to go to them anyway.

However, if you’re making studies in the pain caused by capitalist disciplinarity, you sure will have a lot of evidence.

maybe for the good of my continued academic studies it’s better if i don’t go to the MLA. maybe this is why they don’t encourage younger PhDs to go to it. it’s quite awful. at least that’s what i thought about it last year.